Personality

What is Personality?

A person's unique, fairly consistent pattern of feeling, behaving, and thinking.

What are Cognitive Processes in the context of personality?

The ways in which thought and perception influence personality.

What are Biological Factors that influence personality?

Genetic and physiological influences on personality traits.

What does the Id represent in Freud's theory?

It represents inborn biological drives and obeys the pleasure principle.

What is the function of Ego in personality structure?

It directs biological drives in socially acceptable manners and follows the reality principle.

What role does the Superego play in personality?

It serves as the moral guide incorporating societal values and norms.

What are Defense Mechanisms?

Distortions of reality that allow individuals to escape from feelings of anxiety.

What is the Inferiority Complex?

A psychological condition driving individuals to seek superiority when feeling inferior.

What is the Collective Unconscious?

A shared unconscious mind among humans, filled with ancestral archetypes.

What is Basic Anxiety?

Emotional and physical dependence leads to insecurity in childhood.

What is Basic Hostility?

Children suppress anger to gain parental love.

What is Reciprocal Determinism?

The interdependence of behavior, environmental factors, and personal traits.

What is Self-Efficacy?

The belief in one’s own ability to perform actions needed for anticipated outcomes.

What are the Five-Factor Model dimensions of personality?

Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.

What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?

A personality test presenting response pairs for individuals to select the most descriptive options.

What is the Experience-Sampling Method?

A method where participants use beepers to record real-time experiences and behaviors.

What are Temperaments?

Stable traits that significantly influence personality development.